Feminist reading Challenge 2024 - hosted by sperpe

Read a book about the life / a memoir of a feminist icon
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Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition by Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman

Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition

Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman

264 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative slow-paced
Directed by Dorothy Arzner by Judith Mayne

Directed by Dorothy Arzner

Judith Mayne

209 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction feminism informative slow-paced
Lois Weber in Early Hollywood by Shelley Stamp

Lois Weber in Early Hollywood

Shelley Stamp

384 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative slow-paced
Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis by Alice Kaplan

Dreaming in French: The Paris Years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis

Alice Kaplan

304 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history reflective slow-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

287 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Feminine Mystique

Betty Friedan

562 pages • first pub 1963 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative slow-paced
Me-Stories of My Life-Katherine Hepburn by Katharine Hepburn

Me-Stories of My Life-Katherine Hepburn

Katharine Hepburn

432 pages • first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

512 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry challenging reflective medium-paced
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde

Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde

229 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction essays feminism poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay

384 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced